Kiku Matsuda[1]:
“Kiku Matsuda, the new knifemaker who has a magic hand in grinding and polishing the blades in any angles and directions. Unlike normal grinders, he uses a side flat area of the power wheel, that is his canvas to create any 3D grindings, concave, hollow, flat, Hamaguri (convex), twist, double and triple grindings in a free hand. He says his fingers move automatically from his imagination. This is amazing!
His father has been running a small workshop in Seki for blade grinding work for Seki production knife makers. Kiku has joined at the age of 15 and learned the grinding technique from his father. He is now 56, and his 40 years experiences and techniques have proved to be a best grinder in the world. His fine work was admitted by William Henry Knives some years ago, and all of their custom grade blades are being hand ground and polished by him.
After his son, Masayuki (3rd generation) has joined, he has started making his own knives (handmade custom knives). At the local knife shows, his unique Tactical knives have quickly received great reputations for it’s unique blade style and extreme durability and sharpness. His first preference in blade steel is the new OU-31. ( user/OU-31 Steel.pdfuser/OU-31 Steel.pdf see details of this newly developed specialty steel here), but he also uses D2, ATS-34 and VG-10.
The blade durability, edge sharpness, and longer edge retention of his knives are not only for the steel character, but also for his special Hamaguri-Ba (Japanese Convex edge famous for Katana) grinding. After polished the blade, he will use a special art etching process on the blade for non-glare finish, corrosion resistance and blade surface protection. He prefers to use G-10 for the handles, hand contoured and shaped to fit with hand with a unique parachute cord guard. Each knife comes with hand fitted Kydex sheath with Tek-Lok carrying device.
You will be amazed with the outstanding blade grinding and cutting performance of Kiku Knives, when you actually use one. We would like you to experience and prove it to yourself. However, his custom knife production is very limited right now, as he still devotes most of his work for the blade grinding for several knife makers. So far, he only made some knives for the shows. Kiku is my long time friend, and I have been helping him traveling and conducting international shows in last 4 years.” Jemme Iwahara
“Kiku Matsuda, the new knifemaker who has a magic hand in grinding and polishing the blades in any angles and directions. Unlike normal grinders, he uses a side flat area of the power wheel, that is his canvas to create any 3D grindings, concave, hollow, flat, Hamaguri (convex), twist, double and triple grindings in a free hand. He says his fingers move automatically from his imagination. This is amazing!
His father has been running a small workshop in Seki for blade grinding work for Seki production knife makers. Kiku has joined at the age of 15 and learned the grinding technique from his father. He is now 56, and his 40 years experiences and techniques have proved to be a best grinder in the world. His fine work was admitted by William Henry Knives some years ago, and all of their custom grade blades are being hand ground and polished by him.
After his son, Masayuki (3rd generation) has joined, he has started making his own knives (handmade custom knives). At the local knife shows, his unique Tactical knives have quickly received great reputations for it’s unique blade style and extreme durability and sharpness. His first preference in blade steel is the new OU-31. ( user/OU-31 Steel.pdfuser/OU-31 Steel.pdf see details of this newly developed specialty steel here), but he also uses D2, ATS-34 and VG-10.
The blade durability, edge sharpness, and longer edge retention of his knives are not only for the steel character, but also for his special Hamaguri-Ba (Japanese Convex edge famous for Katana) grinding. After polished the blade, he will use a special art etching process on the blade for non-glare finish, corrosion resistance and blade surface protection. He prefers to use G-10 for the handles, hand contoured and shaped to fit with hand with a unique parachute cord guard. Each knife comes with hand fitted Kydex sheath with Tek-Lok carrying device.
You will be amazed with the outstanding blade grinding and cutting performance of Kiku Knives, when you actually use one. We would like you to experience and prove it to yourself. However, his custom knife production is very limited right now, as he still devotes most of his work for the blade grinding for several knife makers. So far, he only made some knives for the shows. Kiku is my long time friend, and I have been helping him traveling and conducting international shows in last 4 years.” Jemme Iwahara
I will post a review of the two knives I bought later in the week. For now, Suffice it to say that if I did not like the first knife I would not have bought a second one. Pictured here is the mini Full Contact Back-up knife by Kiku san.
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